Is Dementia an Inevitable Part of Ageing?
New Ideas in Ageing Podcast - S1E5
About the episode
If you listened to the first episode of this podcast, you will already be familiar with Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey - who introduced us to this whole big topic of ageing.
In this episode we narrow down and focus on a subject on which Professor Anstey is extremely eminent and that is dementia. In fact, she’s the first Australian academic to be appointed to the World Dementia Council. Kaarin will provide insights into dementia as we age - and help us find an answer to the big question is dementia an inevitable part of ageing?
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About the expert
Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. She is also co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing as well as a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, and dementia. A second focus is on older driver risk assessment and safety.
About our host
Keryn Curtis is a Sydney-based writer, editor and communications professional with a special interest in ageing. She is co-chair of the NSW Division of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) and was founding editor of Australian Ageing Agenda.